Final project

[daijiang]

We may can come with a list of potential projects for students if they cannot find their own.

• Literature review projects
• Analyze online open datasets

[taddallas]

Ideas for review topics:

• Biodiversity-stability relationship
• Latitudinal diversity gradient
• Modern coexistence theory (Chesson)
• Food web models?
• Stochasticity in population models
• Priority effects/ historical contingency
• Diversity-disease relationships ('dilution/amplification effects')
• Long-term changes in plant phenology (can be about just some specific species)
• Long-term changes in animal phenology
• Phenological mismatch between plants and pollinators
• Biodiversity metrics (how to measure biodiversity)
• Treeline dynamics
• What is niche?

Open datasets:

• Portal project data (and other sources listed here https://ecologicaldata.org/find-data)
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
• NEON data (https://data.neonscience.org/data-products/explore)
• Plant phenology portal (https://www.plantphenology.org)
• USA phenological network (https://www.usanpn.org/usa-national-phenology-network)
• Long term ecological data (https://lternet.edu)